Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1887-10-29
TALMAGE on BAD BOOKS.
CORRUPT WORKS BREAK Up THE
TIES OF HOME LIFE.

Who Lost Money at Coney Istand
Races Noe RoJ5tng Their En-
ployers-Horror o. Cords-Ao
Faith IN luck.
"Depraved literature is dong
more to-day for the disruption OF
the domestic circle than anything
exclaimed DR.. 1almage while
addressing An immense congregation
in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on Sun
day morning Oct. 10th. "Clandes-
tine meetings III terry houses, at
ma,inees, in hotel p%arlors and other
places are the damnable results hef
continued, "of reading this vile lit
erature. But the heroine is SO be
witchingly good and the hero SO
brave you say. that | can't give it
up Ny brother, don't you know
that there are plenty otegood books:
The devil don't own all the honey.
There's no excuse for ~debauching
mind and body life is So short that
you can't afford to fill Up with Gin
deIs and husks.
There's a young nan who, judg-
sng by the books he reads, will be a
merchant prince some day, and
there's q young woman who will
make some mans home happy III the
future. These SCR. OF people are
going to be head and shoulders
above the rest by and bye. Ameri-
| car forests are full of honey. One
book may make or break us for lite.
One of the turning points in my life
was when | picked up a copy of
John Ruskin's works at W%ynkoop's
book store in Syracuse. 1t cured
me Of crippled literature. There
are authors from whose pens flow
the very nectar of heaven. Why
not read their writings :?
Some men say they can't bear al
coholic drinks. My brother, don't
brag about it, if you say SO just be.
cause you don't like it, Tor you might
say the same thing about tood-that
you didn't eat it because you didn't
ike it. But there are some, many
indeed, who do like it. They take
it for insomnia, or to drown trouble
They begin with a mint julip, suck
ed through a couple of straws on
Long Branch piazzi and end III the
gutter after having drank a decoc
ton of half whisky and half kero
sene. Some will have it though j
sacrifice his entire family. In thes'
modern times we find only one way
to stop short off, and to stop W,
must have the help Of God.
IL have seen" continued DR.. Tai
mage, "on Sunday restaurants AM
saloons the sign The Shades and
always think 1t suggests putting
mans character in the shade au'
putting bis wife and family in tn
shade. Another slgu, Old Grow,
suggests the carcass of the filth
raven, and yet, with all these warn
lngs, right on they go to physica
spiritual and mental assassination.
Il have crossed the ocean eigh
times said DR.. Talmage, land Their
you'll find the best room reserve
for gambling. | have known a ma
who when he went aboard til
steamer III New York had none
enough TO take an extensive Euro
;, pean "trip. When the steamer a
e rived at her destination lie bad t
r borrow money TO pay for the tran:
r fer of his baggage to the hotel.
/ is absurd to scott at it. Oh, tt
tragedies OF the faro table! | hay
known a mar TO start with a gam
OF cards in a ladies' parlor, an
closed by committing suicide f;
Monte Carlo!
"The Legislature last spring ]
censed pool selling on the rae
y track. Young men who this sun
mer lost all their money on II
Coney Island rae track are no,
/ taking money from their employer
n tilIs. Every New York Senate
who voted for that Pool bill has O
S his head the blood of those souls.
| Il have such a horror of cards
+ continued DR.. Tal,nage, shat
!. would as soon ask my family to pla
: a game Of cards as | would ask the
4 to play a game of raAlesnakes, or
t would so iHto a cemetery and az
t the gravedlggers to have a game
1 skulls. How would you teel if
c ruined gambler came to you an
/ said began MY way to the gam
ling hell in your rarlor 2"
G You are al ignoramus if yc
don't know" continued the paste
F" that in Wall Street transactions
= stocks and produce are legalize
but much of 1t is gambling. le
see the old spiders eat 20 the n
suspecting flies. \ man I kno
tapping his hip pocket, some tin
ago told me that be had $500
there. Now he is pennlless al
homeless. How was that =? You As
Wall street. Ninety GU: of loo {